Word: stratton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subscribers Lawrence ROTHGERBER. ask Aug. JR. JOHNSON CRAVEN that Cowle 30, Phipps 1862. ate Start your in Lawrence life: C. estimate A of Phipps. the WM. $1-per-day E. political EMERY laborer on activity FAST PASMORE the of 12-to-8 Career: Son of an JAMES C. Episcopalian STRATTON minister, grandson of an immigrant English cobbler, he was graduated from Pittsburgh High School at 16, rejected further schooling. Relatives, interested in Carnegie Co., got him his start there. Diligent, shrewd, he caught the eye of Andrew Carnegie, soon was moved away from sooty furnaces to the business office...
...Compton, now head of the Department of Physics, Princeton University, has been appointed President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it was announced by President S. W. Stratton following a meeting of the Corporation of the Institute late yesterday afternoon. Dr. Compton will take office next July, when Dr. Stratton will become Chairman of the Executive Committee and of the Corporation, a newly created executive position in which he will share the responsibilities of administration, but will be relieved of much of the detail...
...while no Illini has been a U. S. President or tycoon of the first magnitude, he will learn to share alumnal pride in j such figures as President Samuel Wesley Stratton of M.I.T., who took his B.S. at Illinois; Senator Otis F. Glenn of Illinois; Motormaker Ray Graham...
After endless hours of cards and questions and careful computations, Dr. Moffet learned that: The favorite authors of American teachers are the best sellers. Temple Bailey, Gene Stratton Porter and Charles Dickens. Like several million others, they prefer the films to the drama, and musical comedy to opera. They like sacred music, also jazz and love songs. The average teacher is the daughter of a small business man, a skilled workman or a farmer; her average sister is a stenographer, a nurse or a clerk. Her average sources of average pleasure are picnics, amateur plays and basketball games. She goes...
Earlier in the morning the two delegates from Brazil, whose prime interest is university administration, conferred with President Stratton, of M. I. T. President Stratton remarked that most universities in the United States lack sufficient organization. He said that the specialist is allowed ample freedom in what he teaches but that he is permitted, and demands, too much voice in the affairs of the university in which he is not well versed...